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Dubliners

James Joyce and Terence Brown

7.5 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid...

Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

Basil Thomson

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First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in...

Straight Jacket

Matthew Todd

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Written by Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, the UK's best-selling gay magazine, Straight Jacket is...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Paradox (Tessa Avery #2) in Books

Sep 26, 2020

Paradox (Tessa Avery #2)

Lucy Roy | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

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Paradox ( Tessa Avery book 2)
By Lucy Roy

What do you do when you discover centuries of your life have been taken from you? When you die in the midst of one war, only to wake up in the middle of a new one?

But more than that, how do you reconcile having lived two lives, each with their own memories, promises, and regrets without losing yourself?

Now, I’ve been irrevocably changed. I can’t simply go back to being Tessa, Titaness of Olympus, any more than I can go back to being Tessa Lynn Avery of Renville, Pennsylvania. Somehow, I have to be both.

With the help of family and friends, both new and old at my side, I'll gradually learn to be the Titaness I was born to be. But first I have to rescue my brother, and that’s easier said than done, when Olympus is faced with something far bigger than any had imagined.

The war has begun.
I really enjoy this series I’m a huge fan of books using the Greek gods as long as it’s written well and this is! We see Tessa dealing with he titaness memories and learning to build her walls while fighting off her brother and trying to stop her father being released form his cage! So many emotions and learning curve for her aswell as Nathaniel. They deal with all this when all the gods around them insist on interfering. Tessa is is strong character! The story just rolls over so well you find yourself reall screaming her in from the sideline!
I only have to contend with normal brothers imagine have 1 ready to tourture and kill you, one locked himself in a cave blaming himself for your death and the twins treating you like China! Think I’d crack x

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Rotten Men (Rotten Love Duet #2) in Books

Aug 25, 2019

Sooo good

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Envy.

Such an ugly sin.

Yet, here I am guilty of it.

See, I envy you.

You who wake up in the morning not knowing what your future will entail. A blessed uncertainty filled with hope and mystery, with the potential to make it whatever you aspire it to be.

Must be nice — to open your eyes and dream of such a promising existence.

I have no such hopeful misguided notions.

My fate has been written down on crumpled paper, made smooth and immaculate by bloody tainted hands for the outside world to behold, since the day I was conceived.

There is no happily ever after for me but I’ve come to terms with my gilded golden cage long ago.

It’s their destiny that keeps me up at night — the pieces of my soul.

They are the ones who I would defy the devil himself for and stare true evil in the eye, taunting it to do its worst.

There is nothing I wouldn’t do for them, yet I know the wheel of fortune is not in our favor.

So, yes — I envy you.

While you dream of your colorful tomorrow, I dread its grayish arrival.

You see, we were all born rotten.

And rotten girls and boys don’t deserve a fairytale ending.

Rotten Girl is the first book in the duet -A Rotten Love

<strong>Sssoooo good</strong>

I loved this duet. Felt so good to finally see Selene home with her men! There is something to love in each of her men. I think I internally cheered when butcher was taken out,I'm also glad it was by her hand with both him an Ciro . Ivy Fox has a really good writing style that keeps you gripped from start to finish.

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